Continual error dialogs since upgrading some ports

[Daniel Nebdal]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> wrote:
> Since upgrading a number of ports yesterday, I'm now being hounded
> continually with error dialogs popping up with the message:
>
> "An internal system error has occurred
>
> A problem that we were not expecting has occurred.
> Please report this bug in your distribution bugtracker with
> the error description."
>
> The dialog is adorned with that little "lifesaver" image used by the
> GNOME help system, as well as a "Show details" button.  Unfortunately,
> the details provided are a little vague, popping up another dialog
> showing the same message as the initial dialog, but with a "More
> details" dropdown button.  "More details" provides only the following:
>
> "The backend exited unexpectedly.  This is a serious error as the
> spawned backend did not complete the pending transaction."
>
> Nowhere to be seen is any mention of exactly what program is spawning
> these error dialogs.  Anyone ever seen these and/or have any idea where
> they might be coming from?
>
> Thanks!


It seems to be a PackageKit thing - do you have a "check for new
updates"-applet running, or something like that?
(ref http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=23959 )

-- 
Daniel Nebdal